Army of Tennessee

The Army of Tennessee was an army of the Confederate States Army that was active in the western US states of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia from 20 November 1862 to 26 April 1865 during the American Civil War. Braxton Bragg was in command of the army for much of the war, fighting against the Union Army of the Tennessee for control of Kentucky and Tennessee until 1863. The army won a major victory at Chickamauga in 1863, but its defeat at Chattanooga in 1864 led to the army being forced to withdraw into Georgia, with the Union army pushing the Confederates out of Tennessee. In the winter of 1864, the Army of Tennessee suffered a crippling defeat at the Battle of Franklin, losing many of its major officers, and it was decisively defeated at the 15-16 November 1864 Battle of Nashville, which effectively ended the army as a fighting force. In January 1865, John Bell Hood resigned as commander of the army, and Richard Taylor would briefly hold command of the army before Joseph E. Johnston took over; the army surrendered to William T. Sherman's Union army at Bennett Place, North Carolina on 18 April 1865.